US 11,940,566 B2
Sequencing of signals in LIDAR systems
Mehdi Asghari, La Canada Flintridge, CA (US); and Bradley Jonathan Luff, La Canada Flintridge, CA (US)
Assigned to SiLC Technologies, Inc., Monrovia, CA (US)
Filed by SiLC Technologies, Inc., Monrovia, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 7, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/923,067.
Prior Publication US 2022/0011416 A1, Jan. 13, 2022
Int. Cl. G01C 3/08 (2006.01); G01S 7/4911 (2020.01); G01S 7/4913 (2020.01); G01S 17/34 (2020.01)
CPC G01S 7/4913 (2013.01) [G01S 7/4911 (2013.01); G01S 17/34 (2020.01)] 37 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A LIDAR system, comprising:
one or more optical components that concurrently output multiple system output signals from the LIDAR system, each of the system output signals carrying a different wavelength channel;
electronics that use light from the system output signals to generate LIDAR data, the LIDAR data indicating a distance and/or radial velocity between the LIDAR system and one or more objects located outside of the LIDAR system;
the electronics including a series processing component that processes electrical signals that are each generated from one of the system output signals, the series processing component processes the electrical signals generated from different system output signals in series, and
a delay mechanism that causes the electrical signals generated from different system output signals to be received in series by the series processing component.